Taking Physical Object and turning Image into Vector Manually

• Upload your image into design space for reference. 
• Determine your desired size and adjust your picture accordingly

• Here we have the picture added to the canvas
• Our Center Circle appears to be 3"/76.2mm /Red Layer
• The inner circle of the array appears to be ½"/.5"/12.7mm /Green Layer
• Let's take that circle and offset by 1/8"/.125"/3mm /Yellow Layer
• Now we have all the pieces we will need to build our shape!
• If we separate our circles by layer now we will save time later

• With our 2 smaller circles selected let begin the circular array!
• You find the circular array in XCS 2.0 Beta by clicking the bottom tab on the toolbar located on the left of the canvas.

• We seem to have 16 sets of the outer circles.
• So we are going to enter 16 for copies
• To adjust the array, let's change the X value (I didn't touch Y at all)
• You can increase the value of  X  to make your array more spread out.
• You can decrease the value of X to make your array closer together. 
• I usually just start with 10 and adjust the X value from there to avoid overlapping. 
• Here a value of 10 sets them almost touching.
• To get the desired effect from the original part we are going to want a little overlap.
• To do this we will decrease the value of X until we get a perfect overlap.
• In this example 9.9 was perfect (you may be at 9.75 or 9.8/ Just adjust until you get your desired results. 

• Now that we have our array completed we essentially have all the pieces we need to complete our final design.
• The next step will be to select our array (it's still grouped/ this is important)
• While holding the shift key select the bigger circle.
• On the right side of the screen you will see the icon for alignment. 

• With our array and circle selected we want to align to horizontal align center and vertical align center.
• This will get everything perfectly aligned with the desired overlaps.

If we just select both objects - combine and unite we will get all of our inner circles of our array to disappear. We don't want this.

• So we are going to break apart the group
• Select all the outer Circles in the array/ You can do so by holding shift key and selecting individually if you didn't separate them by color/layer earlier. Group outer circles to one group and the inner circles to another. 
• If you did separate by layer… this will be super easy!
• All you have to do is open the layers tab/ bottom left Hamburger icon
• Click the green layer, it will automatically select all the objects on that layer- now group them.
• Do the same for the yellow layer.

Advanced users- technically you could complete your operation here, but we would have had to duplicate a layer of our inner circles from the array. And lock them. Complete the combine unite, then unlock them.

• With the Yellow Layer selected 
• Click the Combine Unite Tool
• This will delete all of our overlaps from our array

• Now let's clean up the inner part of the yellow layer and the inner circle.
• Select the Yellow and Red Layers
• Click the Combine Unite Tool again

That's it! We can now cut out our part!

Lets Get CUTTING!

Man that sure did come out nice. 

I painted a 12x12 basswood sheet from xtool with an Acrylic Spray Paint.